LONDON — (BUSINESS WIRE) — November 5, 2014 —
Bentley Systems and Siemens PLM Software today announced their latest
actions to further enhance the integration of the digital product and
process lifecycle with the factory’s digital design. The companies have
integrated Bentley’s point-cloud building information modeling (BIM)
advancement with the state-of-the art process simulation tools in
Siemens’ Tecnomatix® software for 3D digital factory
automation. This will enable users of Siemens’ product lifecycle
management (PLM) software solutions to work from enhanced 3D digital
models of existing factories in their “as-operated” conditions – by
leveraging the models created from point clouds captured through
scanning.

The announcement was made at The Year in Infrastructure 2014
Conference, a global gathering of leading executives in the world of
infrastructure design, construction, and operations.

As a result of the new integrated solution, manufacturers can benefit
from:

an earlier start of production, by avoiding construction or production
line interferences;

the rapid creation of as-built plant models, reducing the time and
costs associated with modeling the digital factory;

the ability of the point-cloud model to serve as the
as-built/as-operating record of the line, enabling improvements to
operational performance through the factory and product and process
lifecycle.

To enable these benefits, information mobility, and work process
breakthroughs, Bentley and Siemens PLM Software expanded their existing
relationship. Bentley’s industrial BIM applications already leverage
several of Siemens’ PLM Component software tools including Parasolid®
software, D-Cubed™ software, and the JT™ data
format. As a result of this agreement Siemens PLM Software will now
leverage Bentley’s Vortex point-cloud technology and incorporate it into
other appropriate Siemens applications as the opportunities continue to
expand.

Dick Slansky, Senior Analyst, PLM Research Director, ARC Advisory Group,
said, “Since the announcement of their strategic collaboration in
November 2012, I have been following the collaboration between Siemens
and Bentley closely and have been very excited with what I have been
seeing from these two companies working together. They are now
delivering a solution for integrating product, process, and production
design with the factory infrastructure that significantly benefits
manufacturing OEMs and their suppliers. Through the shared knowledge of
product and factory/plant lifecycles, EPCs and line builders have access
to higher quality information provided by the OEMs. In turn, OEMs and
suppliers can expect a reduction in launch time and costs, improved
validation of the digital factory, and predictable asset design and
installation.”

Faraz Ravi, Bentley Fellow, Bentley Platform Solutions, said, “At
Bentley we are gratified to be seeing what we call reality modeling
yielding such benefits for product and production lifecycles. In
industrial plants, occasional surveying can now become almost continuous
immersive scanning. Project and asset performance are both improved
through information mobility of point clouds by way of Vortex
technology. Most significantly, this can now increase industrial agility
and quality by enabling shorter product and process design cycles.”

Al Hufstetler, Vice President, Siemens PLM Software, said, “We
introduced targeted customers to early integrations of our software,
which leveraged the Bentley Vortex tools, and the response was
overwhelmingly positive. The value added by bringing the as-built
digital factory design into our Tecnomatix process simulation and
planning products is clearly a great first step in our adoption of the
Bentley tools. Process planning and plant floor designers will benefit
from our partnership, which not only enables faster and better
iterations, but also provides greater visibility into the path of
construction and manufacturing performance.”

About Siemens PLM Software

Siemens PLM Software, a business unit of the Siemens Digital Factory
Division, is a world-leading provider of product lifecycle management
(PLM) software, systems and services with nine million licensed seats
and 77,000 customers worldwide. Headquartered in Plano, Texas, Siemens
PLM Software helps thousands of companies make great products by
optimizing their lifecycle processes, from planning and development
through manufacturing and support. Our HD-PLM vision is to give everyone
involved in making a product the information they need, when they need
it, to make the smartest decision. For more information on Siemens PLM
Software products and services, visit
www.siemens.com/plm.